Senior Software Engineer - UI Systems

As a Senior Software Engineer for UI Systems on the Roblox game engine team you will work on our state of the art game engine building out User Interface features across all of Roblox. No matter the platform, be it mobile or desktop or VR or consoles, you will help enable our game developers to create engaging experiences with the Roblox community using industry leading algorithms and ground breaking technology.

You Will:

• Develop and maintain engine code that powers all UI features in Roblox games, apps, and studio experiences
• Innovate upon our font rendering and text layout pipelines used by Roblox Developers and Players millions of times a day, interacting with our localization / i18n systems to provide engaging experiences worldwide
• Carry the torch for the future of UI development
• Blaze a path forward for adaptive layout schemes that scale from mobile to 4k monitors
• Work closely with our game developer community and internal teams to help achieve their creative UI vision
• Write highly scalable systems that deliver the highest quality experiences possible on high end devices, while maintaining performance on low end devices
• Have fun learning about what makes Roblox an amazing platform and place to work, while contributing to industry leading technologies

You have:

• 4+ years of professional development experience
• Worked extensively in areas like browser/layout engines, game engines or other UI framework development systems. Examples: WebKit, Chromium, Blink, Gecko, Unreal, Unity, UIKit, Android UI Framework, Qt, Yoga, FreeType, HarfBuzz, or your own personal UI framework project!
• Written systems that can be intuitively understood by developers of varying disciplines, such as engineers, game designers, and UI designers
• Systems level 3D math, pointers, templates, and raw blocks of memory are tools to write high-performance code, not your enemies
• Some familiarity with graphics concepts and APIs such as Vulkan, Metal, and/or DirectX
• Worked on a variety of platforms like gaming consoles and/or mobile devices
• Thorough designs, rigorous in handling potential failure cases, and diligent in automated testing